Researchers affiliated to SOAS Food Studies Centre and partners
13 episodes
8 months ago
What is good food: A conversation about food and the construction of value - with stories from Morocco and Croatia.
Katharina Graf is a postdoctoral research fellow at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, University of London. Her research interests pertain to the preparation of food, material and social change, gender, urban space, food security, risk and uncertainty, and global food markets. Regionally, she focuses on Morocco, North Africa and the Mediterranean region.
Anna Colquhoun is a part-time doctoral student, currently based in Croatia for her fieldwork with rural food producers and restaurants. Having previously worked in food professionally, Anna returned to university to study the anthropology of food at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, where she continues her research. Her interests include the social construction of cuisine and place-making and value-creation through food.
Hosts:
Katharina Graf
Anna Colquhoun
Studio production: Anna Cohen
Editor: Mukta Das
Music: Brandi Simpson Miller
With thanks to SOAS Radio.
Music credits:
Double Down by Silent Partner
Shesh Pesh by JR Tundra
Gypsy Dance by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
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What is good food: A conversation about food and the construction of value - with stories from Morocco and Croatia.
Katharina Graf is a postdoctoral research fellow at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, University of London. Her research interests pertain to the preparation of food, material and social change, gender, urban space, food security, risk and uncertainty, and global food markets. Regionally, she focuses on Morocco, North Africa and the Mediterranean region.
Anna Colquhoun is a part-time doctoral student, currently based in Croatia for her fieldwork with rural food producers and restaurants. Having previously worked in food professionally, Anna returned to university to study the anthropology of food at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, where she continues her research. Her interests include the social construction of cuisine and place-making and value-creation through food.
Hosts:
Katharina Graf
Anna Colquhoun
Studio production: Anna Cohen
Editor: Mukta Das
Music: Brandi Simpson Miller
With thanks to SOAS Radio.
Music credits:
Double Down by Silent Partner
Shesh Pesh by JR Tundra
Gypsy Dance by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Clip: MSG - from a symbol of culture and civilisation to "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" (ep 4)
What is Good Food?
1 minute 39 seconds
7 years ago
Clip: MSG - from a symbol of culture and civilisation to "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" (ep 4)
"In Taiwan, MSG has been widely used as a flavour enhancing food additives and in the 1980s and 1990s, nutritional scientists appealed to the public to reduce their consumption of MGS and claimed it caused cancers and allergies and all these diseases - the most famous ones was Chinese Restaurant Syndrome. And this came from a letter published in a medical journal in 1968 from the sender who claimed he felt strange every time he ate at a Chinese restaurant, symptoms such as numbness in the back or the neck, general weakness and so on...and after that there were several reports of serious reactions to Chinese food across the United States and more and more people saw MSG as the cause of their symptoms. But it was exactly the opposite in the 1920s, MSG was considered a more advanced way of cooking. It was a symbol of culture and civilisation"
What is Good Food?
What is good food: A conversation about food and the construction of value - with stories from Morocco and Croatia.
Katharina Graf is a postdoctoral research fellow at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, University of London. Her research interests pertain to the preparation of food, material and social change, gender, urban space, food security, risk and uncertainty, and global food markets. Regionally, she focuses on Morocco, North Africa and the Mediterranean region.
Anna Colquhoun is a part-time doctoral student, currently based in Croatia for her fieldwork with rural food producers and restaurants. Having previously worked in food professionally, Anna returned to university to study the anthropology of food at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, where she continues her research. Her interests include the social construction of cuisine and place-making and value-creation through food.
Hosts:
Katharina Graf
Anna Colquhoun
Studio production: Anna Cohen
Editor: Mukta Das
Music: Brandi Simpson Miller
With thanks to SOAS Radio.
Music credits:
Double Down by Silent Partner
Shesh Pesh by JR Tundra
Gypsy Dance by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
